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Apple Announces iCloud and iWork For iOS

Posted by Unknown on from the computers-are-for-entertainment-only dept.

iONiUM writes "Through a press release ahead of WWDC, Apple has revealed that it will be releasing its own cloud service to rival Google and Amazon's. In addition, they will unveil the new iOS, and the latest desktop OS." Apple also announced the release of the iWork suite for iOS devices.

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  1. Re:Let me be the first to foresee... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "iCloud... When it is down, that is actually a feature."

    When it's down, it's called iFog.

  2. Re:When will there be too many "i"s? by InsertWittyNameHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should call it "Apple Mac OS X Cloud 2011 Premium Home Edition R2 SP1"

  3. Re:When will there be too many "i"s? by ArcherB · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a huge Apple fan, but even I think this stuff with the "i" branding is just stupid and faintly embarrassing. Every Apple product has a fraeking "i" before it's otherwise utterly unimaginative name? "iCloud" - FFS.

    Well, they used to start everything with "Mac", but too many people would be saying "there can be only one" if they called it MacCloud.

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  4. Re:What are the odds by pandrijeczko · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wish that were the case.

    I have no idea where you are in the world but if you're not in the UK (where you can watch it now on iPlayer on the BBC 3 web site), look out for the first in a series of documentaries called "The Secrets Of The Superbrands".

    The first one is about technology companies and Apple feature heavily in it.

    One particular disturbing scene (to me at least) shows fanbois sleeping rough outside of an Apple store in London overnight, not because of a new product launch the next day but because it was a NEW APPLE STORE opening the next day. Amongst the people queuing were fanbois who had flown in especially from Turkey, China and California.

    If that is not the behaviour of disturbed religious cultists then I don't know what is.

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